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Is it always possible to go all the way down to a single letter? I'm working on August 4, and it's proving challenging
Yes, 1 August and 4 August have me stumped. Interestingly it says I have discovered 100% of words on 1 August, but I wasn't able to whittle it down to 0. I'm not sure if that just means I missed an opportunity to remove the space somewhere.
It’s also easy to accidentally spoil the game by clicking the unlabeled right tab. EDIT: Oops, didn't realize that was the words discovered list, not the complete wordlist. This should have a label to make it clearer.
Also, in the help screen, the dots in the UI made me expect to swipe (on mobile) to navigate between screens, so that was a bit confusing at first.
Feedback: I wasn’t sure what to do in the initial game state. It wasn’t obvious that the letters could be “clicked” directly. In a similar word game [0] (also posted on HN recently; perhaps your inspiration?), the letters are in boxes that make them seem more like buttons you can press. The unlabeled tabs at the bottom were also mysterious; many other games like Wordle have their inputs (e.g. a keyboard) at the botto…
I ended at: rat he I remove "h" but it doesn't accept "rate" as a correct word. Am I missing something?
I ended at: rat he I remove "h" but it doesn't accept "rate" as a correct word. Am I missing something?
Is it always possible to go all the way down to a single letter? I'm working on August 4, and it's proving challenging
WOW, we had a similar idea: https://www.shrinkle.org https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44714167 Great work!
Nice! You definitely have something there. I would love a dictionary lookup. I'd expect a big part of the strategy to be working backwards from the possible 1/2 letter words, but there's no way to tell how reasonable the dictionary is without testing, and getting the game into the proper state to test would be just as hard as solving the puzzle in the first place. Having two separate goals (eliminate all letters, fin…
The desktop UI suggestions are also very helpful. I've updated the desktop version with some minor hover effects and cursor styling. I've mostly been focused on mobile, so it was good hear some feedback for desktop.